By the summer of 1899, there were rumours about another gold rush in Nome, Alaska. Within a week, half of Dawson emptied. The Klondike Gold Rush had run its course.

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“The Gold Rush is kind of like a magical time where anything went in Alaska,” Kozey said. “I don’t think a history book ...

That renewed interest in mining created the second gold rush in the Circle Mining District of Interior Alaska. “The Circle Mining District, in the 1980s, collectively with all the placer mines ...